And it’s good for you! As the cooler months roll in we want to warm our bodies with delicious healthy foods. As well as feeling as though you’re warming from the inside out, soup is also a great way to sneak a whole lot of veggies and beneficial herbs into your everyday diet. You can tailor it...
It all started with a piece of lasagne. PhD candidate and Accredited Practising Dietitian Alice Gibson was keeping a food journal for a week when she found herself stumped for how to describe its portion size in the diary. “What’s a small, medium or large? What’s a small to me is a large to someone...
It’s a paradox: After a blazing high-intensity interval training class that left you in a puddle on the floor and spent hundreds of calories, you’re not the least bit hungry. However, you’re ravenous after an hour and a half of yoga. Culturally, we kind of panic when we feel hungry: it’s a maj...
It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and, of course, take your vitamins. Or not. Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good. And our obsession with vitamins masks a much bigger problem...
Supramaximal Interval Training Better Than HIIT? The higher the exercise intensity, the greater the metabolic impact. (1) Case in point, a 2008 study showed that high-intensity exercise sessions over 6 weeks (3 times per week) are a powerful method to increase whole-body and skeletal muscle capaciti...
